The standard indicator of population ageing is the old-age dependency ratio (OADR) that takes the population who have reached the state pension age and divides it by those of 'working age' (16-64 years) to measure the dependent elderly population relative to those who are supposed to pay ...
How is population measured? Graphs show increase/decrease in population over time Pyramids show distribution of population by age and sex Factors affecting population change/predictions: War Disease Natural Disasters/Drought Famine Level of Development Wealth/Poverty Education Health Care Cultural Attitudes ...
Background: In the rapidly shifting Canadian climate, an ageing population, and increased migration, a greater understanding of how local climate and air pollution hazards impact older adults and immigrant populations will be necessary for mitigating and adapting to adverse health impacts. Objectives: ...
Studying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on students’ intentions to start a new business is a recent development in existing entrepreneurial intention (EI) literature [7,8,9,10,11,12,13]. Although the intention to become an entrepreneur has been extensively studied in EI literature, the...
product (GDP) is the total monetary or market value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country’s borders in a specific time period. As a broad measure of overall domestic production, it functions as a comprehensive scorecard of a given country’s economic health. ...
Blog:What is cell viability and how can it be measured? Trypan blue is available from various sources. Refer to the manufacturer’s instructions on how much dye solution to combine with your cell samples, and how long to incubate before measuring viability (with automated or manual methods). ...
individual and personalized treatment is needed to reduce overdosing. Pharmaceutical doses should be calculated individually per patient mass, sex, health, age, genetics and sensitivity. Such a solution is already starting around the world (Cree2013; Cutica et al.2014; Cenci2016). Less hazardous ...
Moreover, the tendency to seek information consistent with one's attitudes is not necessarily negative. Additionally, the actual extent of “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers” is questionable. In line with this, a study by Flaxman et al. (2016) on web-browsing records, reports that ...
Activity in the amygdala is detailed in Table 4 and Fig. 2. No correlation was found between par- ticipants' self-reported empathy/anxiety, as measured by the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) respectively (see Methods), and race related ...
Realizing that a significant portion of the male population in the U.S. is color blind — I have seen figures ranging from 17% to 23%, I wonder why we have rules dictating orange vests when to color blind hunters they appear as varying shades of gray — or sometimes don’t appear at...